Harnessing crowds for energy

In the last post, I wrote about peoplefund.it. From the same stable, there’s energyshare. It’s not really a crowd-funding site, more of a place for forming an online community of supporters for your energy project and sharing experience with each other. But there is also the energyshare fund, which rewards a few community projects each year.

Worth keeping an eye on is Microgenius. The full website is not live yet, but its aim is to bring together people who want to invest in green energy with community energy projects.

Your carbon footprint is a measure of your annual contribution to the CO2 and other greenhouse gases that are driving global climate change. How you power your homes, the food you eat, the transport you use, and the things that you buy – these all contribute to your carbon footprint. There are a number of tools you can use to measure your carbon footprint, including WWF's simple Footprint Calculator. Good idea for a future blog post!